Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: JustG On Droids in the Stratics Chat
Drashk wrote:
How about if they put the Shock prod, or Buzzsaw, that is already in the droid to good use? The art work for such items are already installed in each of the R series droids and we can see the Shock prod in use by R2 twice during RotJ. That would be pretty true to form, IMO.
Heh. That would awesome! R2s should be requires to slice terminals in battles to take over bases.
Drashk wrote:
Sketh wrote:
I just don't see an R2 with a blaster being Star Wars.
How about if they put the Shock prod, or Buzzsaw, that is already in the droid to good use? The art work for such items are already installed in each of the R series droids and we can see the Shock prod in use by R2 twice during RotJ. That would be pretty true to form, IMO.
I'm expecting a slight revamp to many of the droid HAMs, when the combat modules are introduced, or a Protocol droid will be just as useful as a DZ70 in combat, with a price tag that is about 10 times more expensive.
I don't have a problem with R2's having a soldering iron that could double as a shock prod, or other tools that could.
However, in Star Wars, protocol droids were for just that - diplomatic functions. R2's were intended as utility droids - they are obviously NOT combat droids. Something that puts around on castors is not something that should be able to effectively fight.
I guess that I know that SWG has diverged from SW. However, I do like to think that our combat droids are real combat droids - in both look and feel - R2's with blasters just don't have either.
Are you guys makin fun of me? Fine! It is never going to get fixed and I am just dumping 15 bucks a month down a hole. The devs are conspireing against us because on of the creators made everquest which has lots of creatures and that is why it is the main profession in the game, and thus we will never see cool droids, nor will the 10 ton paperwieghts that we can craft ever be fixed to the point of funtionality!
There is that better?
You want to see something funny....
Make 2 identical probots. Give one to a friend. Duel one another, but only sick the droids on each other.
You should have time to do a load of laundry before one finally "wins".